About 400 illegal gold miners invaded a farm that belongs to former Zimbabwean first lady, Grace Mugabe.Local newspaper Newsday reports that Mugabe was touring the farm, located in the northern village of Mazowe which is some 40 kilometres north of Harare, when she ran into the miners. They were allegedly uprooting lemon trees, digging shafts and loading gold ore into lorries."When Grace arrived a...Read More
Vancouver-based East Africa Metals (TSX-V:EAM) revealed that its previously announced Ethiopian Project Financing Memorandum of Understanding with Luck Winner Investment Limited failed to materialize.In a press release, East Africa said that "despite the best efforts of both parties, negotiations failed to define a viable transaction that would be in the best interests of East Africa shareholders...Read More
U.S.-based online activist network Avaaz launched a campaign to gather signatures to oppose the construction of the Volta Grande project, expected to become Brazil's largest gold mine.Canada's Belo Sun Mining Company (TSX:BSX) is behind the project, which is located in the Amazonic state of Par??. Even though it has been denied a construction licence a couple of times, management has kept on worki...Read More
Following a request by the Colchester County council, Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources delayed issuing a request for proposals for gold exploration in the Warwick Mountain area until early May.The 30,000-hectare terrain between Earltown, Tatamagouche, and Wentworth is considered to have potential for the development of multiple gold mines.But according to local publication The Chronic...Read More
Wheaton Precious Metals Inc. (TSX:WPM)(NYSE:WPM) has a unique and exciting business model that allows it to reward investors with relatively low risk and a variable dividend.Read full newsRead More
Nautilus Minerals production support vessel Nautilus New Era was launched at the Mawei shipyard in C...Read full newsRead More
TORONTO, March 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Golden Star Resources Ltd. (NYSE American: GSS; TSX: GSC; GSE: GSR) (Read full newsRead More
ACCRA, Ghana, March 29, 2018-- South Africa' s Gold Fields and Canada' s Asanko Gold are pleased to announce a 50:50 joint venture partnership with regards to Ghana' s newest gold mine, the Asanko Gold ...Read full newsRead More
A federal judicial panel on Thursday will consider creating multidistrict litigation for cases against the Environmental Protection Agency and the contractor accused of causing the 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Colorado, which fouled rivers in at least three states and the Navajo Nation.Read full newsRead More
Wheaton Precious Metals Inc. (TSX:WPM)(NYSE:WPM) has a unique and exciting business model that allows it to reward investors with relatively low risk and a variable dividend.Read full newsRead More
March 20--View CommentsA gold mining company is donating $275,000 to help build a vocational and technical education center for Cripple Creek-Victor School District RE-1.The need is very evident,... | mars 21,2018Read full newsRead More
Which TSXV-listed junior gold stocks have performed the best so far this year? Our list includes the five biggest gainers.Read full newsRead More
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Prices of steel rebar, coke, and coking coal jumped on Friday as the key steel city of Handan in northern China announced new curbs in its fight against pollution, while investors covered short positions to close out the month and first quarter.The most active rebar contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange closed up 4.4 percent at 3,391 yuan ($540.62) a tonne, surging late in the session after He...Read More
Vancouver-based East Africa Metals (TSX-V:EAM) revealed that its previously announced Ethiopian Project Financing Memorandum of Understanding with Luck Winner Investment Limited failed to materialize.In a press release, East Africa said that "despite the best efforts of both parties, negotiations failed to define a viable transaction that would be in the best interests of East Africa shareholders...Read More
A majority of 98 percent of workers at the Iron Ore Company of Canada's railway and port operations in Sept Iles, Quebec have rejected the miner's latest contract offer, the United Steelworkers said on Thursday, after negotiations stumbled on monetary issues.The 305 unionized employees are unhappy with amounts proposed in the defined-benefit pension plan, the union said. Earlier this month, they v...Read More
Saudi Arabia wants to pour $200 billion into solar to build the world's largest solar project.The Saudi sovereign wealth fund and SoftBank Group Corp. of Japan jointly announced plans to build a solar project that is staggering in size - 200 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. That would be about 100 times larger than some of the largest projects in the world right now. "It's by far the biggest solar project...Read More
To understand how enzymes work,scientists need to make molecules involved in enzymatic activities visible through techniques such as fluorescence microscopy.However, many times molecules cannot be detected because they don't emit light. Gold can be the solution to such problem. A researcher with the Leiden Institute of Physics decided to tackle the issue by attaching single molecules to gold nanor...Read More
A community group from New Zealand's Waihi town, in the North Island's Hauraki district, is expressing concerns over plans announced by OceanaGold Corporation (TSX/ASX: OGC) to mine for gold under the nearby open Martha pit.This week, the Melbourne-based company presented its project to the District Council. The Martha Project exploration target is the first stage of an anticipated 10-year mine li...Read More
MONTREAL, March 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Niobay Metals Inc. ("Niobay" or the "Company") (TSX-V:NBY) is pleased to report that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement with Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd ("Osisko") (TSX:OR) (NYSE:OR) raising $2,340,000 (the "Financing").Osisko purchased 9.0 million common shares of the Company (the "Shares") at a price of $0.26 per share...Read More